Four Man Softball Tearn
To Play Red Springs Stars
A four ? man Softball team
which boasts more than 3,800
victories over nine - man clubs
will perform in Red Springs,
N.C., May 22. 1971.
The world ? famous King
and His Court, featuring the
pitching wizardry of Eddie
(The King) Feigner, will face
the Red Springs all ? stars at
8:00 p.m. at Robbins Park.
The game is being sponsored
by Red Springs Jaycees and
Red Springs Rescue Squad and
advance tickets are available
from any Jaycee or Rescue
Squad member.
Using only a pitcher,
catcher, shortstop and first
baseman, the King and His
Court team has made a habit of
humiliating nine - man
opponents for the past 25
years.
"The reason I need three
other men is because opposing
teams would probably walk us
both if I used just my catcher,"
says Eddie Feigner.
The only original team
member still active, Feigner has
won 3,838 games (against only
548 losses), struck out 75,319
batters and pitched 681 no -
hitters, 181 of them perfect
games.
A showman as well as a
pitcher, Feigner dazzles fans
and opponents alike by
pitching through his legs and
behind his back. He also
pitches one inning while
blindfolded and one inning
from second base.
Feigner's fastball has been
clocked at 104 miles per hour,
substantially higher than the
best in baseball history - Ryne
Duren's 98.4 and Bob Feller's
96.8.
In a two - inning exhibition
against a major league All ? Star
team several years ago, he
struck out Willie Mays, Willie
McCove>, Bracks Robinson.
Maury Wills, Roberto Clemente
and Harmon Killebrew.
But Feigner is not the only
attraction on the four ? man
club.
Rounding out the team are
shortstop Eddie Feigner Jr.,
who is taking time out from his
college studies at United States
University in San Diego; first
baseman Al Jackson, a 12 ?
year veteran of the tour; and
catcher Doug Anderson,
described as one of softball's
most powerful hitters.
Bucks Blank
Dunn 1 T o 0
The Bucks baseball team
shut out Dunn 1 to 0 last
Thursday at Dunn in a well -
played, closely contested game.
Scoreless going into the
sixth inning, Raeford's Sam
Young reached base on a
fielder's choice and scored on a
sacrifice fly. Young moved
from first to third on a single
by Skip Autry and then came
home on a fly ball by Mike
McNeill.
Tim Hawkes, pitching for
Hoke, struck out nine batters
and gave up two hits. Hoke got
five hits with Van Pennell
going two for three times at
the plate. Hawkes, who is now
batting .500 Autry and Randy
Watts each got one hit for
three times at bat.
Smith and Chance hit for
Dunn and J. Capps was given
the loss.
Hoke 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Dunn 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Winberry
Wins
First Round
Stan Winberry defeated
Jackie Williams of Union Pines
in the first round of the East
Central Sectional Tournament
at Chapel Hill May 6 and 7 but
lost in the second round to
Stewart Schwab of Chapel Hill.
In singles play, Winberry
won the first round 6-3 and 6-4
but lost the second round 6-3
and 7-5.
In the first round of singles,
Anderson Hostetler was
defeated by Mel Vest of Union
Pines 6-1 and 6-4. Gary Baxley
lost to Leonard Lewis of
Enloe 6-1 and 6-4 and Johnny
Edwards of North Moore
defeated Kim Gilmore 6-2 and
6-3.
In doubles, Charles McNulty
and Tony Austin lost to
Sanford 6-3 and 6-4.
Sanford defeated (he Hoke
tennis team 7 to 2 on Monday.
In singles, Hostetler defeated
Ansley of Sanford 8-6 and
Winberry beat Berryman of
Sanford 9-7. Ford of Sanford
beat Gilmore, 8-0; Griffin of
Sanford defeated Baxley, 8-0;
Johnson of Sanford beat
McNulty, 8-1 and Fouchee of
Sanford beat McLamb, 8-3.
Sanford captured all the
doubles play, with Ansley and
Johnson defeating Hostetler
and Winberry, 8-5; F.Iks and
Berryman taking Baxley and
Gilmore, 8-4 and Hart and
Griffin defeating Squires and
McNulty, 8-4.
V eterans
Corner
Q - I plan to attend college
under the GI Bill, and
understand that I must submit,
at intervals, a certificate of
attendance card. Is this true?
A - Yes, veterans attending
college under the GI Bill are
required to return a
certification card to the VA
during the last month of each
enrollment period. Students
studying under the GI Bill
below the college level must
submit a certificate of
attendance card every month.
Q - I have read that some
national cemctcries are filling
up, and will soon close. Will
VA pay an additional
allowance toward purchasing a
plot in a private cemetery?
A ? There is no provision for
VA to pay anything upon the
death of a veteran except a
statutory S2 50 burial
allowance, unless he carries
insurance administered by the
VA. Also, the Army, not VA,
is in charge of the National
Cemetery System.
Q ? Will the increased Social
Security benefits cause me to
have to pay back money to the
VA if I go over the income
limitation?
A ? No. Your VA pension
will be continued through the
end of 1971. On receipt of
your annual income
questionnaire at the end of the
year, your pension will be
adjusted as appropriate.
Softball
Scores
The Softball season began
Monday night with three games
at Armory Park.
Carter's Tire defeated A&P
10 to 5 in the first game of the
season. Bargain Motors downed
Hoke Concrete 11 to 3 and
House of Raeford beat Raeford
Fire Department 9 to 8 in six
innings.
A&P 10 0 3 0 0 1
Carter's 3 0 1 4 0 2 x
Leading hitters for A&P
were Larry Long and Bill
Lcntz, who each got two for
three. Carter's Tire leading
hitters were Eddie Baker, three
for three; Julian King, C.D.
Bounds and Vardell Hedgpeth,
two for three.
Bargain Motors 11, Hoke
Concrete 3.
Hoke Concrete 0 3 0 0 0 0
Bargain Motors 3 2 0 1 14
Leading hitter for Hoke
Concrete was Jerry Osborne
who hit two for three. Top
hitters for Bargain Motors were
Bobby Baker and Earl Rose,
two for two; Ronnie Taylor,
W.L. Priest, and T. Brown, two
for three; Henry Kieger. three
for four and Bill Hendrix, two
for four.
House of Raeford, 9;
Raeford Fire Department 8,
called at six innings because of
time.
House of Raeford 4 1 0 4 0 0
Rae. Fire Dept. 7 0 0 1 0 0
Leading hitters for House of
Raeford were Larry Phillips
and John Mooney with two for
three. Fire Department hitters
were M. Simmons, D.
Lungsford and R. Stone with
two for three and B. Barefoot
and W. Barefoot with two for
four.
Lentz Makes
Stale Tourney
Uill Lent/, shot a 77 Monday
in Sanford to qualify for the
state high school golf
tournament.
He will compete Monday
and Tuesday at Chapel Hill.
Ler.u. who averaged a 77 for
the season, was the only Hoke
goiter to qualify for the state
meet.
In the Sanford match, Don
Williamson shot an 89; Mike
Wood an 82 and Dan
McGougan an 85.
REl.A Y ~ The mile relay ream will compete in the sectional meet in Green ville Jfulay after
placing third in the district last Friday night at Fayetteville. Left to right are Charles Crowder,
lames Rogers, Mack Rockholt and Mark Heath.
RhX'ORD Rl'X - Ronnie Dockery breaks school record for the
second time this year in the rv?t> - mile run. He clocked a 11.07
at the Fayetteville district meet last i'riday night.
MII.I'R Charles Crowder will run in the sectional meet in
Greenville tomorrow after placing fourth in the mile run in the
district meet last Friday in Favetteville.
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BY JIM DEAN
I don't expect you to believe
a word of this.
I would not believe it if you
told me the same story.
But what I am going to tell
actually happened on a golf
course pond near Burlington.
It was a windy, warm winter
day, and I had decided to
spend a couple of hours
dragging a plastic worm alone
the bottom of the pond in
hopes that some obese
largemouth bass - grown senile
with age -- would yawn at the
precise moment my worm
dropped into his mouth.
I was not exactly brimming
with confidence as 1 took a
seat on the dam near the drain
pipe and aimed my first cast
toward the center of the lake.
After 30 minutes of fruitless
casting, I was beginning to
daydream.
That's when I had a strike. I
'taPeud t0 my ^et, threw open
the bail on my spinning reel
and watched the line peel off
in satisfying snatches.
"Boy, look at him go," I
said to a fellow angler sitting
on the bank next to me.
I let the bass run, hoping he
would stop and swallow the
worm. He ran, and ran, and
ran, and ran. I've never seen a
bass run so far without
stopping or even slowing down
J knew I should set the hook
n fact, I knew I should have
hit him shortly after the strike,
but I was amazed at his
dazzling speed.
Finally, when half the line
was gone from the reel, I
closed the bail and set the
hook with a mighty strike.
Nothing.
"Dropped it," I ^d
miserably. I opened the bail
again hoping he might pick it
up. Again line peeled from the
reel, and it was going out even
faster than before
I closed the bail and struck
Nothing.
"What the heck..." I
muttered. I opened the bail.
Line slreamed from the reel. I
closed it and struck. Nothing.
"Hey buddy," said the other
angler. 'I don't want to
disappoint you but I think
your line is going into the
drain.
... "Tha,'s impossible." I said.
I was fishing on the bottom."
i tightened the line. It went
directly to the drain pipe.
It can t be, I said. 1 began
to reel furiously, and after
about five minutes, the worm
popped out of the drain.
The other angler looked at
me strangely, then moved a
dozen feet down the bank and
sat facing me. I thought I heard
him mutter something about
"some crazy kooks."
I sat down on the bank and
scratched my head. I looked at
the water, then I looked at mv
rod. It couldn't have happened,
but I had seen it.
Finally I made another cast
to the same spot I'd been
fishing. The mystery began to
unravel. As 1 slowly reeled, the
line blew in a gentle curve
along the top of the water until
it came to rest against some
debris lodged on the pipe. The
line passed directly over the
hole. I continued to reel, and
the worm climbed the pipe
(hen plunked in. I felt a jerk
when the lure plopped. That
had been the strike. 1 opened
the bail, and line ran off the
reel in a steady stream.
"1 don't believe it," I said to
no one in particular.
1 reeled in my line, put my
tackle in the car and drove
home.
"I don't believe it," my wife
said later.
"1 don't believe it," my boss
said.
"We don't believe it." my
friends said.
But it happened. 1 will swear
in church on a leather ? bound
Bible and a first - edition Isaac
Walton that it happened.
If you don't believe ine, ask
that fellow who was sitting
next to me on the bank. He
was wearing a blue shirt, khaki
pants and a baseball cap. I'm
pretty suie he lives in
Burlington, but I don't know
his name. You could look
around
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HL'RDLtSS ?? Robert Pecora placed fourth in the district meet in
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